Abstract:
Histories of confinement are not just histories of incarceration and internment. Māori and other indigenous peoples have experienced other types of confinement in colonial and post-colonial settings. I draw to attention the expereince of imprisoned young Maori women and their social location to illustrate the way that disadvantage is reproduced and accumulated so that prison life becomes negatively but normatively accepted. In looking at the broader literature both nationally and internationally I hope to bring attention to both the experience of marginalisation and some of the consequences and research issues that this type of scholarship produces.